Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH is a

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. It produces '' Spaten'' and ''Franziskaner'' beers.

History

In 1397, the ''Welser Prew'' was alluded to for the first time in Munich. The ownership changed often until 1854, when the brewery moved to the location it still uses today. In 1867, it became the largest brewery in town. In 1872, the Franziskaner Leist brewery, served beer at the

Oktoberfest Oktoberfest (; ) is the world's largest , featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October. The annual event attracts more than seven milli ...

for the first time, the Spaten Oktoberfestbier Ur-Märzen, especially brewed by Josef Sedlmayr.Mönch macht Marke
''Getraenke-news.de'', 1 July 2020 In 1909 began to deliver beer to

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. In 1922, the Spaten-Brauerei and Franziskaner-Leist-Bräu united to form a joint stock company. Both breweries were owned by the Sedlmayr family (Gabriel Sedlmayr was a former royal court beer brewer). In 1924, the advertising slogan "''Lass Dir raten, trinke Spaten''" (literally "Let yourself be advised, drink Spaten") was invented. It is still in use today. The Franziskaner beer was created in 1935, and its label (the Franziskaner monk) was designed by Ludwig Hohlwein. In 1964, the brewery produced its first

wheat beer Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German and Belgian ; other types include Lambic (made with wild yeast), Berliner Weisse (a c ...

, and ten years later, all the Franziskaner brewed became wheat-based. In 1984, the brewery started a national distribution of its beers. By 1998, it ranked among the top 10 breweries of Germany. The brewery reached a production of in 1992. In 1997, the brewery combined with the Löwenbräu AG to form the ''Spaten-Löwenbräu-Gruppe''. The ''Spaten-Löwenbräu-Gruppe'' was sold in 2003 to

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for 530 million euros. During the 2002/2003 brewing year, the Franziskaner beer alone reached one million hectoliters produced. The brewhouse in the Marsstraße in Munich was closed due to a lack of workload in 2006 and is now the museum of the company. In 2011, the brewery launched the Franziskaner Royal (wheat beer). In 2017,

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launched the distribution of alcohol-free Franziskaner in the UK. In 2021, AB InBev began considering selling the Franziskaner and Spaten brands in a move to offload some of its German beer assets.

Description

In 2010, the brewery employed 500 workers and had an annual production volume of approximately , making it one of the largest breweries in Bavaria. Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu is one of the six brewers in Munich to brew beer for the Oktoberfest.

Products

"Spaten" means

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, and the symbol of the brand is a

malt Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting". Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted milk, malt vinegar, ...

shovel. "Franziskaner" means

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in German, and the picture on the label is of a Franciscan

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. *In 1841, the company introduced ''Märzenbier''. *In 1894, the Münchner Hell (German

pale lager Pale lager is a pale-to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Bre ...

) was produced by the company for the first time. The

wort Wort () is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars, the most important being maltose and maltotriose, that will be Ethanol fermentation, fermented by the brewing yeast to prod ...

is >11.7°

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. This product has 5.2% of

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by volume. *The

Pils Pils may refer to * Pilsner Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsn ...

was the first to be produced in Munich and has >11.7° Plato wort and 5.0% of alcohol by volume. *The

bier is produced in spring to be sold in autumn for the Oktoberfest. It has >13.7° Plato wort and 5.9% of alcohol by volume. *The lighter beer is the Diät-Pils, which may also be consumed by

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s; (100 ml contains about 134 kJ, 32 kcal). It has 4.9% of alcohol by volume. *Non-alcoholic beer has a wort of >7.3° Plato. *Franziskaner Weissbier has 11.8° Plato wort and 5.0% of alcohol by volume. The brewery claims it brews the Franziskaner following the tradition of the German Purity Law of 1516.Marc Bona
Franziskaner Weissbier - Crack One Open
''Cleveland.com'', 12 January 2019 *

Doppelbock Bock () is a strong Beer in Germany, German beer, usually a dark lager. History The style now known as ''Bock'' was first brewed in the 14th century in the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic town of Einbeck in Lower Saxony. The style was later adop ...

Optimator has 7.6% of alcohol by volume.

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